Neurodiversity-Affirming
Care For All Ages
The Original
Neurodiversity-Affirming Collective
Thurston County's First Multi-Disciplinary Collective Serving Our Community Of Families & Providers Across Thurston County and Beyond
Welcome To Sound Youth Neurodiversity Collective!
We are a culmination of neurodivergent providers, allies, and/or neurodivergent parents raising twice exceptional children. Each lived experience within our collective has allowed us to cultivate a deeper understanding of what affirming care truly entails. Integrity, resilience, authenticity, and prioritizing care over profit is central to our core values
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Our Services
At SYNC, we believe that success comes after strong relationships are built. This is through trust and honoring personal interests and needs. When we reframe our understanding of what is "typical" and what is not, we can truly begin to accept individual differences. We foster approaches that allows a child to come as they are and be as they are. Here at SYNC we strive to provide services that promote positive mental health and overall well being.
Neuropsychological
Evaluations
We offer a wide range of assessments and interventions to help children and adolescents with various cognitive, behavioral, and emotional challenges. Services include: comprehensive neuropsychological evaluations, psychoeducational assessments, ADHD and ASD evaluations, and gender/ neurodiversity evaluations. Our neuropsychologist offers compassionate and personalized care to meet the unique needs of each child family.
Speech-Language Therapy
Our neurodiversity-affirming speech-language pathologists offer a wide range of communication and feeding services including: articulation, phonology, language, fluency, literacy, social language, feeding therapy, executive function, cognitive-communication therapy, AAC training, and parent/caregiver training.
Specialty services include:
SOS Approach To Feeding®
Natural Language Acquisition
Hanen More Than Words®
Hanen It Takes Two to Talk®
Occupational Therapy
OTs support participation in important activities of daily living and life contexts. They are trained in human development--motor, vision, sensory, cognitive and executive functioning, neuroscience, and emotional and self-regulation skills. Our OTs provide individualized services plans in a play-based format while offering caregiver coaching.
Specialty services include:
Ayres Sensory Integration (ASI)®
Interoception Curriculum
Marriage & Family Counseling
Marriage and family therapists in our collective can work with clients, couples, or families. Our marriage and family therapists are influenced by Internal Family Systems (IFS), and offer parenting groups and parent coaching. Our marriage and family therapists have lived experience supporting neurodivergent individuals so that parents and families can feel empowered, understood, and supported in their parenting journey.
Mental Health Counseling
Individualized Mental Health Counseling The neurodiversity community has unique mental health needs. Our mental health providers offer individualized support to children, teenagers, and adults with specific understanding of neurodiversity, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ concerns. Approaches may include Multicultural, Social Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), or creative hands-on approaches (art or play therapy).